“I am very angry,” says Kasem Abu al-Hija, 67.

On Saturday, four members of his family were killed when an Iranian missile hit his house in northern Israel, collapsing the concrete building over him.

Witnesses say that books, clothes, children’s toys and body parts were blown on the road.

The entire road was drowned in darkness when the missile was a hit. Rescue teams managed to find their body by following blood trails.

The four victims were named as Manar Khatib, daughter of 45 -year -old Kasem, her two granddaughters, Shadha, 20 and Hala, 13, and her aunt, Manal Khatib, 41.

They managed to make it in two reinforced safe rooms in the house that they shared – but the ballistic missile hit it directly.

He lived in one Arab-Bahul city of Tamra in northern Israel.

After their deaths, a video emerged online. This showed the Iranian missiles through the Akash’s overhead. As they descend on Tamara, a voice can be heard shouting in Hebrew: “On the village, on the village.”

“Your village can burn,” a group of others then says, singing, hoping and clapping.

“They sing about what happened to my family,” Kasem says, gradually, surrounded by relatives in a vigilance.

Video – which shows Israelis singing a common anti -Arab chanting, often sung by ultraviolet Jews – is widely condemned in Israel, the President Isaac Herzog called it “frightening and derogatory”.

But there are other reasons that Kasem and comprehensive community in Tamra are angry about what happened.

Here – as is with many Arab -Bahul communities in Israel – there are no public bomb shelters for 38,000 inhabitants.

For comparison, there are 126 public shelters in nearby Jewish-Bahul city Karmil, population 55,000.

Residents of Tamara have long raised an alarm on inequality. Located north of Israel, about 10 km (6 mi) east of Haifa city and 25 km from the border with Lebanon, in the south, the city has been weak for rockets extracted by the Iran -backed Lebanese group Hizbullah. In October 2024, a rocket fired by the group seriously injured a woman.

Across Israel, about a quarter of the population has no access to a proper shelter. But the figure is about half of the non-Jewish local authorities, according to a report of 2018 by the State Controller of Israel, the most recent data is available.

“For several decades, Arab local authorities have obtained less state funding in various fields including emergency preparations,” a think tank, “says Little Pillar of the Israel Democracy Institute.

Where shelters exist, she says, “They are less, maintained bad, and often not suited to stay for a long time”.

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Israeli Arabs – many of which prefer to be called Palestinian citizens of Israel – forms the fifth of the country’s population. According to the law, they have equal rights with Jewish citizens, but they regularly complain of state discrimination and are treated as second class citizens.

After the Gulf War of 1990–91, when the Iraqi missiles killed Tel Aviv and Haifa, the Israeli government said that all new residential buildings should have a reinforced safe room, or mammad, as they know.

But Arab communities often face hard planning restrictions that make up homes without irregular constructions and build houses without them.

About 40% of Tamara houses have their own safe room, local authorities say that most of the residents have to participate in neighbors’ houses to share. In many cases, due to short warning periods, this is not possible.

Arab Amit’s Ilaan Amit of Empowerment, Equality and Cooperation (AJEEC) for the Arab-Jewish center says, “The interval is very large, which works to build shelters in the Arab communities.” I live in Jerusalem. Every building has a bomb shelter. There is a public bomb shelter in every neighborhood. “

As the darkness falls in Tamara, the phones of the residents light together with a scary alert: “You should stay near a protected area.”

The sirens soon follow, and the inhabitants – fresh from Saturday’s strike trauma – nervousness. Mothers gather their children and people run on the road shouting. Many families crawl in a safe room of a house. Some cry, some smile, others are nervous. A man closes his eyes and prays. The boom is heard overhead after the boom.

The issue of shelter is even more clear in the Arab Bedouin communities of Israeli – many of which live in villages in the Negev desert which are not recognized by the Israeli government, so there are no shelters created for them.

The only victim of April 2024 was an increase in enmity between Israel and Iran was a young girl from a community who was seriously injured and spent a year in the hospital after a piece from an Iranian missile.

Lack of shelters is also a popular issue in areas like Tel Aviv in some poor Jewish communities of Israel.

A new survey conducted by the University of Hebrew found that 82.7% of Jewish Israelis supports the attack on Iran – but 67.9% of Arabs oppose Israel. In addition, 69.2% Arab Israelis reported feelings of fear on strike – with 25.1% disappointment.

“Arab society feels neglected and lags behind,” says Amit. “There are huge intervals in education and employment. There are huge intervals in shelters in the existence of shelters.”

Edel Khatib, a municipal officer of Tamra, says: “In the days of this, you can feel anger.”

“We do not get basic needs,” says Khatib. “Most Arab communities, they do not have community centers or buildings for culture, activities.”

According to official Israeli data, in 2023, 42.4% of the Arab population lived below the poverty line – double the ratio in the normal population of Israel.

In recent years, an attempt has been made to close these intervals. In 2021, the previous government of Israel was brought under five years of development plan for Arab society.

“We were in the midst of a major jump in socio -economic development, reducing the interval in education, higher education and employment,” Amit says.

But the current right -wing alliance of Israel, the most rigid in its history, has gradually reduced funds for that plan – to redirect money elsewhere.

Some of these deductions adjusted the budget to fight the ongoing war in Gaza, which began on 7 October 2023 in response to an attack on the Hamas -led border on Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

“This government is simply putting, you know, cling to the wheels of this five -year plan, it is not possible to apply its broader parts,” Amit says.

“For the last one and a half years, the Arab society found themselves between a rock and a difficult place in the sense that they are suffering from the policies of the current government, and on the other, they are suffering from their brothers and sisters in Gaza and due to war in the West Bank,” they say.

Outside the ruins of the family’s house, 16 -year -old Mohammad Usman, a neighbor, says: “Everyone is angry and sad.”

Talking about 20 -year -old Shada, he says: “She studied her whole life. She wanted to be the best. Her father is a lawyer, and she wanted to be like her. All those dreams, just disappeared.

“They were the best picture of a happy family … When I imagine them, I imagine the pieces that I saw.”

In a vigilance ahead of the funeral, dozens of communities gather, congratulate each other with handshakes, share coffee and tea, and quietly mourn.

“Bombs do not choose between billions or Jews,” Kasem says. “We should end this war. We should end it.”

Photos by Tom Bennett